Discord’s reversal followed a widespread user backlash, which also intensified scrutiny of the platform’s age-check partners. Suddenly, these often-overlooked players in the “age-assurance” ecosystem ...

Angry about Discord age verification? Find out how Discord botched the rollout, lost user trust, and changed direction.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Persona, partially funded by Peter Thiel’s venture firm Founders Fund, continues to provide age verification services for OpenAI, ...

Discord has ended its partnership with identity verification provider Persona after researchers discovered the company’s front-end code accessible online and on a US government-authorised endpoint.

Some Discord users are now being asked to scan their faces or IDs to verify their age group when they attempt to view sensitive content. While some might call this a chilling advancement of the global ...

After announcing its global mandatory age-verification rollout, Discord has distanced itself from leading third-party age-verification partner Persona following a wave of backlash from users based in ...

Discord has spent the last couple of weeks in the crosshairs of the internet, as its decision to launch an ID-based age verification program proved even more controversial than most of us likely ...

Discord will be rolling out age verification to all users. Here's how to complete the process. Credit: Valera Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Age verification is spreading on the ...

Discord is the latest company looking to bolster its child safety (again). Starting in March, all users will have a "teen-appropriate experience" by default. Unlocking adult content and age-gated ...

"We leverage an advanced machine learning model developed at Discord to predict whether a user falls into a particular age group based on patterns of user behavior and several other signals associated ...